The Buckets by Greg Cravens for October 27, 2023

It just never works to shop for each other.

Be happy you went shopping for you next time he won’t

Can this marriage be saved?

Didn’t say the “Right cheese” either.

I never write “cheese” on my list, I specify “cheddar” or whatever. This leaves no room for doubt. :D

The wrong cheese, is just one. If the list says “cheese” get a variety.

Be glad it isn’t her “time” – when you get THOSE products, the man is ALWAYS wrong!! (poor baby!)

This reminds me of one of the classic Monty Python sketches, The Cheese Shop. >

We have seven kinds of cheese in the fridge, so stating the type is important.

“We got the wrong cheese, Gromit. It’s the wrong cheese!!!!”

My bf is a retired chef, product selection and acquisition is his responsibility, I’m the tech writer, verbose instructions are my task

Try it, you’ll like it!

Cheese Louise!

Women

In his defense, there’s a huge variety of cheeses, and you should know that. If you aren’t specific enough, take what you get. And next time you’ll be more specific.

They’re going to try the cheese, love the cheese and now they have a new favourite cheese!

They communicate so well that he knows when she’s being silly.. she means, “I know I should have said what kind, my bad.” and they both laughed. ✍️(◔◡◔)

No one who knows how to make out a shopping list just writes “cheese” unless there is ONE brand and ONE type of cheese in the household. I will say, however, that my husband is an excellent grocery shopper, even though he doesn’t do it that often.

That’s my husband. After 15 years of using the same product he isn’t able to remember the name or even the look of it.

Probably the cheapest one but also the same color of the one you use…..

“… Though your cheese is lovely, it’s the wrong cheese. It’s not her cheese, …”

when my wife was recuperating from her broken heel and reluctantly had to delegate food shopping to me, she’d give me the shopping list and minutely detailed instructions that i sometimes managed to follow correctly…

No two cheeses are alike. That’s the beauty of cheese.

It looks like good cheese. Any cheese would most likely be good except “head cheese”. Even American cheese or Velveeta, when someone is desperate. The list maker should specify which cheese if he or she needs it for a recipe or he or she is fussy as hell.

My wife and I do a lot of the grocery shopping together, but even when I go out alone, I have a pretty good idea of what we need and what she likes. Comes from being married for 38 years.

Well, so much for The Power of Cheese … Bummer.

The real question is whether he will complain when she serves it to him.

darned if you do…